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Tautological Status of the Second Law (view source)
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{{Topic
|Question=Is the second law a tautology, i.e. can it ''in principle'' be violated?
|Topic Type=Descriptive
|Description=As any law, the second law attempts to forbid certain courses of action, for otherwise it would lack any empirical content and would be a tautology. However, it is not quite clear whether the law in its current formulation can be contradicted by any conceivable situation. So the question is whether the law is tautological or non-tautological, i.e. whether there are circumstances (perhaps the collapse of the society which contains the scientific community) under which the second law can in principle be violated?
|Parent Topic=Mechanism of Theory Acceptance
|Authors List=Rory Harder,
|Formulated Year=2013
|Academic Events=Scientonomy Seminar 2013,
}}
{{Acceptance Record
|Community=Community:Scientonomy
|Accepted From Era=CE
|Accepted From Year=2016
|Accepted From Month=January
|Accepted From Day=1
|Accepted From Approximate=No
|Acceptance Indicators=This was when the community first accepted an answer to this question. [[The Second Law is a Tautology]], which indicates that the question itself is legitimate.
|Still Accepted=Yes
|Accepted Until Approximate=No
}}
|Question=Is the second law a tautology, i.e. can it ''in principle'' be violated?
|Topic Type=Descriptive
|Description=As any law, the second law attempts to forbid certain courses of action, for otherwise it would lack any empirical content and would be a tautology. However, it is not quite clear whether the law in its current formulation can be contradicted by any conceivable situation. So the question is whether the law is tautological or non-tautological, i.e. whether there are circumstances (perhaps the collapse of the society which contains the scientific community) under which the second law can in principle be violated?
|Parent Topic=Mechanism of Theory Acceptance
|Authors List=Rory Harder,
|Formulated Year=2013
|Academic Events=Scientonomy Seminar 2013,
}}
{{Acceptance Record
|Community=Community:Scientonomy
|Accepted From Era=CE
|Accepted From Year=2016
|Accepted From Month=January
|Accepted From Day=1
|Accepted From Approximate=No
|Acceptance Indicators=This was when the community first accepted an answer to this question. [[The Second Law is a Tautology]], which indicates that the question itself is legitimate.
|Still Accepted=Yes
|Accepted Until Approximate=No
}}
